Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Engineering Excellence

Highspot
Full-time
Seattle
$188,696 - $258,391
Posted on 5 months ago

Job Description

Highspot is seeking an experienced engineer to lead the design, development, and evolution of their cloud-based infrastructure and developer platform. This role focuses on enabling product teams through scalable, secure platform capabilities, abstracting cloud complexity, and driving the adoption of modern infrastructure practices.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable platform capabilities
  • Create and maintain developer-facing tools
  • Implement Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to build platform services
  • Standardize infrastructure across cloud environments
  • Lead incident response and reliability engineering
  • Act as a technical mentor
  • Define and execute a strategic roadmap

Requirements

  • 15+ years of experience in software or infrastructure engineering
  • 5+ years focused on platform engineering or cloud infrastructure
  • Proven success designing and operating internal developer platforms in AWS
  • Expert-level experience with Kubernetes
  • Strong expertise in Terraform, GitOps tools, and CI/CD systems
  • Deep understanding of cloud networking, IAM, and container orchestration
  • Familiar with the CNCF landscape
  • Passion for developer experience
  • Track record of technical leadership
  • Bachelor's or Master’s in Computer Science or related discipline

Benefits

  • No benefits